I recently discovered that what we teach medical students and doctors about the nature of cerebrospinal fluid is flat out wrong. In some ways, even backwards. This is the first part exploring the evolving research:

What Neurosurgery Got Wrong | Part 1

We have been taught for over a century that cerebrospinal fluid is made in the ventricles, and flows in a specific manner. But, is it made in the v...

We should be more focused on health of the brain involved in emotion regulation, cardiorespiratory function, feeding regulation, threat analysis, balance, posture, & instinct. Far too concerned with higher cognitive function, and complex pattern recognition. Our obsession with higher cognitive function, ie. complex pattern recognition, has come at the cost of adaptability and longevity provided by functions of the basal ganglia & brainstem. Not that we should have none of either, just in a proportion that isn't manifest in health decay.

My wife recently delivered our second child at home, naturally. Something she taught me, that seems to stand in contrast to the typical masculine motif: Get your mind out of the way, and let the body do its thing. Something we can all learn from.

We Had a Home Water Birth. Free article:

We Had A Home Water Birth.

The experience of delivering our first and second child could not have been any more different.

Wife and I just delivered our newborn at home on our own, in water. Midwife arrived in time to snip the cord and examine the placenta. Alhamdulillah.

In Part 1 I presented a framework within which to understand blood flow and pressure. Part 2 is an exploration of high blood pressure, when and how to adequately manage it. The results of several new studies may surprise you.

Understanding Blood Flow & Pressure | Part 1

To get a grasp on hypertension, why it happens, and how to treat it...we need to completely reframe our understanding of the circulatory system.

Understanding Blood Flow & Pressure | Part 2

Now that we have discussed the essence of blood and flow, we explore hypertension, if and how to treat it.

Clinical Trial Scams 101: Assess symptom severity: e.g. 1-12 points Batch scores into groups of 4, e.g. scores 1-4 = group 1 If person moves from severity of 9 to 8, they move from group 4 to group 3. Report as 25% reduction in arbitrary group score. But only 8% in severity.

At some point during the transition into large-scale education, medical school and licensing exams went from testing your knowledge to telling you what to know. Students and doctors mostly memorize correct answers. These people weren't bred to think for themselves.

Latest Article: On Tradition, Health, and Science.

On Tradition, Health, and Science.

Nearly every field that has become hostage to corporate, regulatory and sociopathic capture has a tendency to wield The Science as a bludgeon to di...

Modern mainstream medicine was not built "on the shoulders of giants." No. It killed the giants, harvested its organs, and sold it for profit. This is #fiat medicine.

Everybody and their grandmother is being prescribed statins to lower cholesterol because "LDL = bad" Ever wonder, just how much risk is being reduced by this highly mitochondrial poison we call statins? In a meta-analysis of 18 clinical trials (which typically look at the highest risk patients with pretty bad cardiovascular disease), all cause mortality was reduced by 0.8% That's it. New-onset diabetes with statin use has been observed in about 10% of people who have taken it for a few years.

Evaluating the Association Between Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Reduction and Relative and Absolute Effects of Statin Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - PMC

What is the association between statin-induced reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and the absolute and relative reduc...

I've had enough back'n'forths with people about cholesterol and statins, that I decided to write an article outlining some of my thoughts on the matter. Check it out:

Statins Suck.

And why preventing your body from making the most important building block is a bad idea.

Why is 'muscle pain' the most commonly reported and recognized side-effect? Because it is the only one you can really FEEL. I believe that most of the damage statins do to the body, you don't really 'feel.' Not acutely. Most of the damage is slow, low-grade, and insidious.

Exercising while taking statins can be dangerous. Increase energy needs of your body whilst simultaneously suppressing the energy-generating machinery? Unfortunately, this is the recommendation from most physicians to "reduce risk" Recipe for disaster.

Any doctor who blindly encouraged, pressured, or coerced you into getting the covid vaccine does not deserve your trust. Simply because this behavior reflects a lack of critical thinking and presence of mind. You don't want a doctor who practices from a place of fear.

AM Sunlight amateur woodwork. Do shit outside. This is medical advice.

Epigenetics is proof that nature does not only select life. It moulds it.

Shoes. Coats. Chairs. Beds. In the name of comfort & ergonomics, the more these things do for your body, the less your body has to do for itself. Ultimately, this makes you less resilient. Buyer beware.

Eat meat.

Is it possible that the least harmful source of food is one which shares the most similarities with your own environment? If the food is nurtured in an environment relatively alien to you, it is adapted to unfamiliar parameters. This food is most likely to perturb your body.